RBT Practice Exam (75 Questions)

In the Discrete Trial cycle, the prompt should occur when?

Simultaneously with the instruction, or just after it

The following is an example of which transfer procedure? SD: Point to the cat? R: child points to cat SD: What is it? (holding cat card) R: child says "cat."

Listener response to tact transfer

Outcome recording could be used for which behavior?

Writing an essay

Competent Training Programs and Supervised Work Experiences include all of the following, EXCEPT?

Specific training in Occupational Therapy practices

Breaking a complex skill into smaller, teachable units is the definition of...

Task Analysis

When you document you should attempt to document only...

What was observed, not interpretations of what was observed

Which of the following is not a part of a Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP)?

How the child feels when the behavior is occurring

What can be used to determine existing nonsocial and social reinforcers?

A preference assessment

If a Behavior Technician measured the length of time that it took Andrew to respond to someone calling him, she would be measuring the...

Latency

All of the following are some appropriate ways to respond to feedback, EXCEPT:

Explain to your supervisor why you did what you did. They may be wrong in their feedback

All of the following are functions of behavior EXCEPT...

To placate others

Which of the following is not socially mediated?

Automatic reinforcement

Behavior Analysts should always recommend the ____________________likely to be effective in dealing with a behavior problem.

Least restrictive procedures

When our learner is on a roll with responding, reinforcement should be...

Continued at current levels or increased

All of the following are reasons that the use of electronic communication and social media are more likely to result in a HIPAA violation EXCEPT:

HIPAA encourages people to use paper because its the safest and most efficient way to communicate health information

If a practitioner finds that, due to unforeseen factors, a potentially harmful multiple relationships has arisen, what is recommended?

Attempt to resolve with the best interests of the affected person and maximal compliance with the Guidelines

What are two things you can do to organize and prepare for each day ahead of time?

Use a "to-do" list and keep a calendar to review what is up ahead

Which type of chaining results in the learner being reinforced after they perform the final step in the chain?

Backwards chaining

The role of the RBT is to

Provide direct support and education with individuals receiving ABA services

When teaching Bob to discriminate boys and girls, his teacher used pictures of exaggerated versions of genders (girls had long hair and dresses, boys wore pants, had short hair). Over time, she used less exaggerated features. This an example of what?

Stimulus Fading

The three steps of discrimination training are...

Teach in isolation, add distracters, mix in mastered items

When Keenan and his mother go to the zoo, Keenan always whines to ride the train. Most of the time his mother says "no," but when she is really tired she might say "yes." Why is this behavior not likely to be easily extinguished?

She has reinforced his whining on a very thin variable ratio schedule

Which of the following would be transfer trial: The teacher presents the discriminative stimulus with an echoic prompt, the student responds correctly so next the teacher will _________.

Present the discriminative stimulus but this time fade or omit the echoic prompt

Once pairing has taken place, the teacher can become a ___________reinforcer.

Conditioned

A crisis plan includes which sections?

Antecedent Interventions, Escalation, Crisis, Post Crisis

Something you can do to prevent the student from losing motivation in Naturalistic Teaching is...

Change activities at a pace that is just slightly faster than the learner is losing interest in them in following teaching sessions

If a practitioner finds that, due to unforeseen factors, a potentially harmful multiple relationship has arisen, what is recommended?

Attempt to resolve with the best interests of the affected person and maximal compliance with the Guidelines

Instructors can help facilitate generalization by ___________.

Varying the therapy setting, SDs, and stimuli

A ______________ is an employee who is required by the state to inform a designated investigator of any suspected, witnessed, or alleged abuse or neglect.

Mandatory reporter

It is okay to work for a close family member as long as _____________

There is no time where it is appropriate to work for a close family member

Tamara is behind on her work as an analyst and decides she needs to do some work at home tonight. She copies the files she has been working on (which contain PHI) to a flash drive and drops the flash drive in her purse for later use. When Tamara gets home, the flash drive is missing. Is this a security breach?

Yes. It is a security breach. The data on the flash drive was not encrypted or otherwise protected and there is no way to undo the potential damage because the flash drive is lost.

Behavioral definitions must be both...

Observable

Measurable

Find the best definition for hitting

Forceful contact between the learner's hand and another person

Data should be graphed:

Before a treatment is introduced

During treatment

After treatment is introduced

How can you tell if an item functioned as a reinforcer?

If the behavior was actually repeated in the future after receiving the item

If the demands of an organization conflict with the BACB's guidelines, practitioners should

Clarify the nature of the conflict with their supervisor, make known their commitment to these Guidelines and try to resolve the conflict

Discrimination training requires ...

One response and two antecedent conditions

If a Behavior Technician watched Jimmy for 5 minute periods and recorded if he were humming for ANY part of that 5 minutes period, she would be using:

Partial Interval Recording

Which of the following is backwards chaining?

Prompting a learner through all steps of washing hands, but allowing them to throw away the towel independently

What is the first step in creating a behavioral treatment?

Define the behavior and select a measurement technique

James is reaching for a gummy worm you have in your hand, and he isn't saying, "Gummy." What is the most intrusive prompt you can give?

Model the word "gummy" (echoic prompt)

When you observed Sally, she kicked 7 times. Your observation was from 1 pm to 3 pm. Sally's kicking rate per hour is:

3.5 per hour

Behavior Analysts adhere to a code of ethics that seeks to protect the _____________.

Rights of its consumers

What are the 4 functions of behavior?

Access to tangibles, to gain attention, escape, automatic

Complete this sentence: Documentation and record keeping are important to ensure....

Accountability, coordination of care between yourself and other supports and to guide the improvement of services

When practitioners believe there may have been an ethical violation by another practitioner, or non behavioral colleague, they attempt to resolve the issue, first by:

Bringing it to the attention of that individual

Jake yelled when he wanted music turned off and his parents would turn it off. One day, his parents decided to ignore the yelling. Jake's yelling initially increased then decreased over the next couple days as they continued to ignore. What occurred?

Extinction burst

The one time you should violate confidentiality is _______________.

When there is suspected abuse or neglect

In which of the following scenarios would consent not be required?

When advancing to the next target in a program

It is appropriate to discuss clients with which of the following?

Practitioners should discuss confidential information only for appropriate professional purposes and only with persons clearly concerned with such matters.

Supervisors must provide feedback to their direct reports every______________.

Two weeks

Before you can make a hypothesis about the function(s) of the target behavior, you must do all of the following EXCEPT...

Tell the parents to skip medication for a day so you can rule out medication effects

If reinforcement is delivered after each number of responses listed, which of the following is variable ratio of 7 (VR7)?

3, 11, 7, 7, 4, 10

Sue's teachers say she isn't motivated by anything. She shows little interest in toys, activities or food. An exception appears to be one CD that she listens to exclusively. What can Sue's teachers do to broaden her reinforcement repertoire?

Pair toys, food, and activities with the music she loves and then start to fade the music volume down

Multiple examplar training refers to _______________.

Using many different stimuli to teach a skill to promote generalization

An operational definition is used for a behavior so that

Two independent observers will agree on occurrences and non-occurrences of the behavior

Whenever punishment is going to be used, the client or the person whom makes decisions for the client, such as a parent or guardian, must ___________.

Give informed consent

Rob is learning body parts, and loves frogs. His teacher draws a frog, but leaves out parts of its body. When he points at the missing part, she prompts him to say the body part, then draws it. This is an example of Naturalistic Teaching Strategies because...

The reinforcer was directly related to the material being taught

When deciding what mands to teach you should...

Do a preference assessment to determine what motivates your learner

Ratio Schedules are based on ______________ and interval schedules are based on ___________________.

The number of responses, passage of time

Which of the following is deemed acceptable when it comes to avoiding dual relationships?

Dual relationships that are recommended against

What situation might warrant a functional assessment of problem behavior and a behavior intervention plan?

Candace throws items at her peers during class. This happens several times/hour, and occasionally it causes injury

Which of the following could be a Motivating Operation?

Tommy hasn't eaten today and is very hungry

Frequency recording would be appropriate to use for which behavior?

Key strokes

Free Operant preference assessments involve...

Watching what your learner chooses to do when they can play with anything available

You can transfer the control of the mand to the motivation operation alone by...

Systematically fading your prompts

Leila engages in hand mouthing. She is reinforced every time she is engaged in a behavior that is incompatible with hand mouthing (drawing or building with legos). This is an example of which differential reinforcement procedure?

DRI

Which of the following would be the most appropriate report about behaviors observed in a session?

Johnny engaged in 4 episodes of hand biting today

Every ten minutes Johnny is rewarded with a gummy if he did not throw his toys. This is an example of which differential reinforcement procedure?

DRO

What does a crisis plan describe?

How to prevent and respond to the crisis behaviors

Stimulus control is when...

A behavior is emitted more often in the presence of a particular discriminative stimulus than in its absence

Line Graphs can be used for:

Percentage & duration

Frequency & rate

Intensity & latency

You can track your learners progress in mands by...

Taking frequency data and graphing the results to be analyzed over time

Hilary has autism and she likes to push buttons on her toys over and over again. After a while, to her parent's satisfaction, the batteries wore out of the toy. Hilary stopped pushing the buttons on the toy. What decreased her behavior?

Extinction

The Phase Change line demonstrates a change in conditions on a graph and is represented by:

A solid vertical line